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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Citizen journalism. Google Maps.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. Money, it's a drag.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. Networks in an International Context.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

This offer is international. It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy. The project also works closely with volunteer translators at Wikipedia’s translatewiki.net. Find eligibility information here.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. Think of how Wikipedia works.

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